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food-plant can be given, and where a daily supply can be 
had, rendering it unnecessary to place these in water, for 
many larve are apt to thrive badly on twigs so supported, 
and I think a daily turn-out, and a fresh supply of food is 
more healthful; in very hot weather it may be needful to 
- renew the food twice a day. But I find one drawback, which 
I have not succeeded in removing, and which is particularly 
operative in the spring and autumn: larve are liable to crawl 
occasionally on the’ earthenware sides of the pots, and as 
these get cold they seem to chill the feet and claspers of 
young larvee, and produce a species of cramp, or perhaps it 
may be a rheumatic ailment. Lining the pots with paper 
does not answer very well. Perhaps some other entomologists 
have noticed this annoyance, and devised a remedy. ‘The 
rearer of larve cannot be too watchful for the appearance of 
several of the moths of the genus Tinea in his breeding- 
house; it is not sufficient merely to exclude the imagos from 
boxes and cages: guided by instinct, they deposit eggs on 
the gauze or zinc, and the larve, dropping through, prey 
upon the pupe that may be below; should there be none, 
they will devour moss. I will not say that, in lack of other 
food, they may not even eat earth, like niggers of certain 
races, often discoursed upon by travellers.—J. R. S. Clifford. 
Eimelesia unifasciata at Cheltenham.—I took four speci- 
mens of Unifasciata here on the 19th. I think it is new to 
this district —W. C. Marshall; 8, Spa Buildings, Chelten- 
ham, August 22, 1874. 
Death through the Sting of a Hornet.—The deputy 
coroner for the Reading division of Berkshire has held an 
inquest at Mortimer, a village near Reading, touching the 
death, under extraordinary circumstances, of Mrs. Sarah 
Merrett, a labourer’s wife. Deceased was standing in the 
road near her house, when a hornet flew out from a nest in 
the bank and stung her on the right side of her neck. She 
went indoors, and a neighbour bathed her neck with water - 
and vinegar. However, she fainted almost immediately, and 
expired in a few minutes, before a medical man could reach 
the house. Mr. G. H. Davis, surgeon, stated at the inquest 
that he knew Mrs. Merrett as a nervous, excitable woman, 
and he believed the immediate cause of her death was 
Syncope, the result of a nervous shock caused by the sting of 
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